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Friday, February 28, 2003 :::
Bull City Photograph Tour
Last night for my preservation class, we went to the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University in Durham. I rode up there with UVA Debutant Girl and Could Be A Punk Rock Girl, which will be a whole 'nother blog.
The collection was fantastic, it is so much better to see the things in real life than reproduced real tiny in a book. There were original Matthew Brady photographs of Ulysses S. Grant and Civil War hospitals.
Some of the most impressive stuff were huge, they were huge, I mean big, photogravure prints of American Indians by Edward Curtis. There were also some big prints of western landscape photos by Timothy H. O'Sullivan and some beautiful platinum photographs of Yellowstone by William Henry Jackson. All these things were from the late 19th-century. These guys were hauling around those big old glass plate cameras and portable darkrooms on mules, falling into the Grand Canyon and everything.
There were also cyanotypes of Admiral Dewey's fleet in the Phillipines during the 1890's, these early 1900's color transparencies called autochromes that looked like they were taken yesterday.
Just too much, tintypes of black Civil War soldiers, 1850's photo albums, on and on.
They had pulled all this stuff out and put it in the rare book room, which is my idea of heaven even when its not filled up with beautiful old photographs.
Quote of the Day:
Mr. Jefferson has the honour to present his compliments to Mrs. Smith and to send her the two pair of Corsets she desired. He wishes they may be suitable, as Mrs. Smith omitted to send her measure. Should they be too small however, she will be so good as to lay them by a while. There are ebbs as well as flows in this world.
--- Thomas Jefferson to Abigal Adams Smith, January 15, 1787
::: posted by tom at 9:19 PM
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